Pre-Birthday Buzzz

Oh.. it's coming !! it's round the corner !!.. im so excited..!! k k.. due to this excitement.. im actually already bought some princess-related toys for missy.. gotten her the one set of princess dress up, which she wore almost the whole day, execpt napping and going out (which after i insisted she cannot wear it out)..

and also the princess cutting sets, with the princess chopping board & knife and luckily the fruits/vege do not have princess print on them..

I've got more ideas on the celebration this year, as i feel missy is now knowing better of what she likes/wants..

let me list out the things i've check out;

Item 1: Cake
This is the MUST in the celebration. I've the 3D princess cake in mind. now is either order from home-made type or commercialize type. as most home-made are not halal certified and there is 1 Malay student in Missy's class. so am still thinking. I think likely i will order the commercialized 3D cake.

Item 2: Birthday favours
for me quantity of stuff inside the bag is not important. sometime missy will bring back one huge birthday bag with all type of sweetsss.. she loves it but i frown whenever i see that and i will distract her to only two ot three sweets/choco.. the rest i will dump it away or give to helper.

Likely, i wont do what i dislike. so i have chosen some favours that i feel is useful/meaningful. We even get Missy to write her friends' name on her own on the favour.. well, during the process really made me "lost my temper" again, as she keep writing the wrong thing, ask her write "N" she writes "M" ask her write "C" she writes the mirro image C.. as we use the golden pen to write, she even use her fingers to rub it (testing) and smear the letters.. but well,, at least the names are entirely written by her.. so personalised. i actually allocated few days for this task, but she manage to write all in half and hour time. not bad at all.

I've ordered some princess theme birthday stuff from www.partycity.com too. i've got the princess party hats, princess tattoos..princess plates, even princess games. and some prizes for the games

Item 3: Birthday present
Well.. am still thinking about it.. i ask LGG the other day what should we get her ? LGG look around, s if complaining that "you've bought almost everything that i could think of " well.. am still thinking.

Item 4: Home celebration
Besides celebrating her 4th birthday in her childcare. We plan to celebrate her birthday at home too, as the actual day is on Saturday. But, she will still have her weekend class in the afternoon. So, we have to either do it in the morning ot evening. Which i prefer morning though. I plan to make a castle cake for her. A challenge.. but i like it..shall see how it turns out to be ! im so looking forward to it myself. i've been watching the video of how to make the cake/icing online lately..


Amidst all the excitement and preparation, i want to pass this message to dear missy.
Birthday is the time to thank your mummy for she had gone through the labour to give birth to you. It's not for you to ask for birthday present. If you do get one, you should be thankful.

As year passes by, i hope we can do something more meaningful for missy on her birthday instead of splurging on "wants".. as there are so many children who cant even have a meal, don't talk about cakes.. shall slowly get missy to understand/realise that the world is not always as wonderful/perfect as she knows..

B'day Preparation

i printed out the birthday banner, ordered cake online, mum prepares food, mum in law prepare food. i bought didi's gentleman romper on line.


well, wat did the father do ? make the white background for the banner.. so much to do huh !

lil Jared is ONE today

Finally, he is ONE today. we have a small celebration @ home with grandparents. again, all home-cooked food, except the cake. haa.

we are going to take his final pneumococoal jab on monday and i shall find a day to get his chicken pox jab too.

he is still not able to walk, just cruising on furniture, he can stand up without holding on anything, but still not willing to step out without holding on things.. mm.. mum said should make more ikan bilis soup for him haaa.. last time missy already can walk independently.

anyway, beside this, he is vety good with his hands, he can open cap, put it back, take things from container, put it back. he recognises things, where they are, and how to get them..he claps hand whenever there are cheering, he get very excited if play chasing game, he likes to go out for walk..he likes swimming (we did once)

He is still very much into whatever his sister is doing, nowadays missy learns to give way more as i encourage her to do so, and she loves her brother a lot. which is a good thing. occassional fighting for toys still happen but in control. hee.

didi basically can eat anything and everything..but of course we dun give him anything and everything. he wants everything we eat and he will cry very sadly if we refuse to "share" fainted ! we think we can bring him ti buffet next time, as it surely worth the money since he loves eating .. muahaha..his milk intake is abt 3 times a day very much lesser if compre to his sister last time, he eat solid more.

he utters sounds like mama, mum mum, gaga, dada, byebye..kaikai..all these..also active like sister, move none stop when wake up. he likes to flip books pages.but not so interested when i rad story books to him.. shall keep trying.

I have yet to start any Shichida work with him, shall do that soon and will register for him to SM for October term.

meanwhile, im glad that bb jared is one now as i feel the effort put in to look after him really pays off when see his smiles.. he is really adorable.

My Missy 3rd Birthday Celebration

Finally we have celebrated missy's 3 yo birthday on 3 separate occasion.

1. Home on her chinese calendar birthday -unofficial

Her grandma (my mum) cooked her birthday meal with big drumstick and egg.



then, we sing a birthday song for her with the polar fresh cream disney tiny cake.


2. School

we prepared the party goodies bag in advance, which include of the barney party hat, barney party bag, barney blower. then one set of stationary, one pack of M&M chocolates, one mini lollipop, one mini pack of raisin.

The last photo is missy getting her gift from neighbour, a dancing doll.


On that day itself, we bought 20 vitagens and one cake and one swiss roll to her school. why the swiss roll ? cos he cake seems small, eventhough it's 2kg, it's ice cream thus small. i worried the teachers might not have enough, but it turned out more than enough hee..

missy follow me to collect the cake, maid push her in ehr push cart. the below two photos are photos of missy learning to cycle on her new bicycle, gift from her daddy



we took some photos before going to her school, which is just below our block. didi is so cute when we get him to wear the party hat, he din reject.cute.he must ben puzzled at what is going on.







3. grandparent's home celebretion

I baked the marble cake, but what a disaster, my oven broke down on that day,. i have to steamed it. but it turned out not properly steamed, inside still have soft portion. sob . only found out when we cut it out.



evidence on the source of her fever/cough --> durian mooncake and lots of popcorn



Happy birthday my girl !

Missy's 3rd Birthday Celebration

Am still thinking what to do during her birthday.. ok.. i;ve already got her a birthday gift.. her daddy is going to buy her a bicycle.. and we have decided to get number 3 swenson's ice cream cake .. but we have yet to decide on the pattern of the cake..

i have yet to decide on what to buy for her friends in school as birthday favours..yes, this year we will celebrate her birthday in her school, which i have already inform her teacher since May. last year we did not do it cos missy is not feeling well on that week of her birthday. as she had just enrolled and often got sick that time.

hope i can finalise on her cale design and birthday favour by early september :)

Feel more excited than my girl for her upcoming birthday.. hee

My 33th Birthday @ Home

I've been toying with the thoughts of baking my own birthday cake, using the steam moist chocolate cake recipe, this time with the chocolate fudge, feling qite lazy actually.

Today morning, LGG ask whether want to celebrate at Jack's place or Swensen.. mm.. well.. im also lazy to go out..so i decided to celebrate at home instead.

so, i started preparing the ingredients and all..steam the cake. then make the chocolate fudge (first time i make this) and hey, it turned out sooo well.. really after stirring for 10 minutes, it turned into fudge..in short, the cake, +the choclate fudge,, makes into my birthday cake..i deco it with some m&m choclates.which suppose to have more, but most ended up into Missy's mouth..*eyes rolling*



Missy is suppose to help mummy putting the m&m chocolate onto mummy's chocolate birthday cake, but she refuses to put them on, she "steal" the chocolate away instead. Lucky im fast to "protect" the rest of the m&m.. else my cholate cake will be real plain..




AFtr the chocolate cake is ready, i put them into fridge as we have to get ready like bath and all..and i askmaid to fry some french fries + seaweed nuggets + sotong ball (yeah, all fried )

Then i thought.. mm.. i have a bunch of bananas that;s riping.. why not make some banana chocolate chips muffins ( this is one of my want-to-do list) so ok lah.. go ahead ! since i still have lots of chocolate fudge left, i might as well put the fudge on top of my muffin after it's ready ? *good idea*. so i ditch the chocolate chips and replace it with left over chocolate fudge,, today will be all chocolate & fried food.. *sinful*

So tt's how we have banana muffin with fudge and missy's one candle muffin "birthday" cake.. she just love birthday. by the way, the banana muffin simply good...



Missy cant wait to help mummy to put the candles on the cakes, we make our birthday wishes and sing LGG sings birthday song for us.. and oh. only 3 candles on my cake.. cos we run out of birthday candles..nvm la..and the cake from fridge seem to crack a bit, so, next time better serve it warm.. else, not so presentable.. hee



my chocolate fudge cake +muffin



some photos, well, i may say some last few photos with JUST ther three of us, before our new member joins along soon.



HAppy Birthday to myself ! one year older and one year wiser..so my next wish is my bb boy comes to us healthily and safely !

Little Missy 2nd Birthday

We have celebrated missy's 2nd birthday at home last Saturday. This round, again, we have our home-cooked food, with sushi, chinese cuisines, my all-time favourite salad and egg tarts and of course, missy's minnie Swenson's ice cream cake. Yum yum. Missy welcome her birthday by singing her Happy birthday songs she picks up from school. she even sings her ABC songs and LGG videod it down. cute. she now still tell me "Happy birthday, blow candles" how she has developed her linguistic skills compare to last year, when she just picked up her walking. time fliesss. My girl is turning two already. Missy now enjoy her childcare, she will climb onto her pram happily in the morning and sometimes sing on the way to her school. and happily walk into her school after hugs and kiss to me. great improvement. The teachers are right. children can adapt after 1 month and tt's exactly what happen. Loads of photos taken for missy but my home Pc cant seem to load the photos. so got to find out the reason first. Sigh. Happy Birthday my little Missy ! Mummy wishes you all the best, good health, Happy days everyday. The love of my life.

My 32nd Birthday

One more year.. i feel wiser and wiser.. muahaha.. well..nothing special this year.. im blessed with everything i have .. i do not ask for more..contented.

Just hope for good health, happiness and smooth sailing in all things i do.

Shall celebrate on weekends.




Forgot post the "mian sian" mum cook for me heee..thanks to her that at this age i still get to eat me suan on my birthday.Mum is always the best !

Missy is ONE today

Well, sat was an early celebration for missy. Her actualy birthday is TODAY ! so daddy & mumy took one day off just to be with our sweetie pie.

Well, i planned to go picnic, but it rained in the morning. sob. so we went to visit my mum's friend instead. her daughter is interested with my playgroup idea. and she bought many toys from Leap frog , amazon online. woah.. seems like my online purchase with increase in time to come..encouragement !



Today we brought missy down for a walk in her tricycle again, i bought the bubbles from kiddy palace and we have great fun playing with bubbles. she is so excited over the floating bubbles whenever i blow it..

She is so cute in her yelow shirt and two small pony tails..she now knows how to say "shh" as in quiet..

My Missy FIRST Birthday *O*

Yipee.. we have a very happy celebration on Saturday for my missy's very FIRST Birthday ! I really think it was one of the best home celebration i'be ever had. All the food, except the 2kg cake are home-cooked. and we have people we are close with, all at home just to celebrate and share the joy of our missy's birthday. She is such a princess that day and so pretty in her princess dress. *proud mummy*



The Night before, LGG & I are preparing thre home decoration, how can birthday without balloons right ? missy is so excited and busy together with us..



I've made the birthday slogan with recycled paper (credit card brochures/tissue boxes..) not bad huh ! environmentally friendly !*green mummy*I bakde one loaf of milk loaf. but the stupid yeast act-up again. i gues i should always use new yeast instead of old ones.. sugh, nvm la.. the bread is not the main dish anyway.



everyone sleeps well till the next morning.. i woke up as usual at 6am.. start baking my egg tarts as i feel baking and eating on the same day is the freshest. so i started preparing the dough and filling and baking for 4 rounds. Mum cooking her "gong bak" and 'red egg" and fried some chicken wings & drumsticks, i then ad one more my specialty .. salad.. hee
MIl cooking chicken curry, fried bee hoon & one vegetarian dish. and we collected the cake from Jack's place .. all just perfect. The cake is so huge, the biggest cake i ever bought ! *wink wink*



Then, my missy changed into her princess dress, she is so cute..mum let her wear her present from mum & MIL.. she is so sparkling shinny.. *muakk* Then, it all followed by never ending phot takings.. and of course, birthday songs and cake cutting.. and guess what while we are eating, door bell rang, it was a parcel for missy. from her uncle all the way from Oz.. Sooo good timing ! he bought her 2 dresses & one disney piglet. so sweet of him and even made her cranes..



So, missy gets many presents ..she now loves to be in her tricycle, which i bought for her i bought minnie pendant for her too.

I wish my little girl stay healthy and happy forever. Muak ! Happy Birthday my sweetie pie !